The part played by the Celtic race has a formative influence in the history, literature and the art of the people inhabiting the British Islands, a people which from that center have spread its dominions over so vast an area of the earth's surface, have been unduly obscured in popular thought. It is for the Anglo-Celtic, not Anglo-Saxon, people that this account of the early history, religion and the mythical and romantic literature of the Celtic race is written. Illustrated.